Why did Thomas Paine publish Common Sense? to convince Britain it could not govern the colonies well
to let foreign countries know the colonies were ready to fight Britain
to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent
to force Southern colonies to support Northern ones in the coming war

The main reason Thomas Paine published Common Sense was to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent from Britain. Common Sense was a pamphlet that Thomas Paine in wrote in 1775–76 wanting to promote independence from Great Britain to the people in America in the Thirteen Colonies.

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julius caesar turned the roman republic into the roman empire by coming in and taking the "dictator" role during the time of a civil war (elites vs lower classes) winning battles and reputation, then declaring him dictator for life

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